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Формирование системы оценки открытости исполнительной власти
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This paper discusses holistic approach to the evaluation of the public agencies openness based on authors’ research in Russia. Openness in this paper is understood as new paradigm for governance which comprises certain tools and methods as well as evaluation criteria for them. The measurement framework comprises evolution levels for the open government tools. The framework may serve as a self-survey evaluation pattern for the public agency. The openness evaluation framework presumes further participation in evaluation both for the experts and the society.
The author describe the legal models of the influence of business to the authorities: with the regulation of lobbying and without it. Analyzes the risks that accompany the regulation of lobbying in foreign countries: shadow sector, the impact of foreign States, promotion of the interests of large corporations, poor quality of the attached institutions. The author meditate about the possibility of regulation of lobbyism in Russia.
Author – the protagonist of Karl Popper’s critical rationalism – considers critically Karl Popper’s philosophy of open society.Subject of the article contains: 1) risks and contretemps of methodological individualism; 2) risks of social development ignored by Popper’s philosophy of open society; 3) author’s conception of human, social and governmental openness.
The 6th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, ICEGOV2012, was organized in Albany, New York, United States (US) from the 22nd to the 25th of October 2012, hosted by the Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York under the patronage of the United States National Archives and Record Administration. The ICEGOV (International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance) series focuses on the use of technology to transform relationships between government and citizens, businesses, civil society and other arms of government (Electronic Governance).
In the article authors present new Open Government Evaluation Model for Russian federal authorities. The Model describes three stages of openness assessment: authority self- assessment, experts' and citizens' assessment. The core of the Framework is three stages evolutionary approach to ten universal open government mechanisms and tools. Their evolution is three dimensional: legal, managerial and technological. International government effectiveness assessment ratings are considered as well from the perspective of openness measurement. Authors describe examples of openness mechanisms and tools usage by Russian federal authorities and with this formulate future trends of open government development in Russia